Now this takes the biscuit. Actually so many things take the biscuit at R's school that I don't think there are any more biscuits left in the packet. You might be wondering how French music lessons can be transformed into a figure for the mark chart, well now I know...
Tomorrow R has a music test, I prefer to call it a trial but R assures me it is a test as it is marked. He has to stand up in front of the class with another boy and sing a song about Ulysses 4 verses and 5 refrains. They start off with 10 points. The teacher puts on a recording of the accompaniment, and as they both sing takes marks OFF for errors of rhythm, diction, melody and text....I'm sorry but this sounds like a round of "It's a Knock Out", I can almost hear Stuart Hall wheezing with laughter as he watches the competitors making desperate exhibitions of themselves.
Listen to the wheeze here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_eK0zegE4w
My dears, there is nothing more amusing than watching our European cousins dressed as penguins and falling arse over tip.
I've just discovered on Wikipedia that It's a Knockout was bought off the FRENCH, under a Jeux Sans Frontières franchise!
Well that explains it!
(don't worry pop pickers he got 9 out of 10 and that's what COUNTS)
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